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On 24 April 2013, at 18:53, Michael Hampicke wrote: |
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>> Your system must be more complex than I'm imagining, because I see this obvious answer of a bash script which loops through /home/*, runs `du` or `df` and sends an email to anyone who's consuming more than 90%. Obviously this needs to be adapted to circumstance. |
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> That only works on small systems. I have systems here where a 'du' on |
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> /home would take hours and produce massive IO wait, because there's so |
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> much data in there. |
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Of course. Excuse me. |
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My original idea was in respect of the previous respondent's desire to offer hard limits of a gigabyte - allocating each user a partition and running `du`, which returns immediately, on it. |
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I don't understand how a hard limit could be enforced if it's impractical to assess the size of used data. |
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Stroller. |
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